MPs question health training quality

Patience Makwele

The Parliament’s Standing Committee on Education, Youth, Civic Relations and Community Development has launched an inquiry into Namibia’s health training sector amid growing concerns over graduate unemployment, accreditation delays and the quality of training offered by some institutions.

The inquiry follows a sharp increase in the number of health training institutions in recent years, a development lawmakers say has expanded access to health education but also raised questions about the employability of graduates, the standard of training and whether the sector is adequately regulated.